The LAMBcast

The Popular Format is back for this week's episode as we welcome back, Will Slater, Nick Rehak, Nicole Ayers and Howard Casner to check in on what has been drawing their eyeballs recently. There are some obscure gems on the show but also well loved blockbusters and classics. We start off with a little Academy Award talk over perceived slights and then we finish up with an exit question, befitting the format of the show. How can you resist? You have to be watching something so here are some things you can consider. 

Hello Everyone, and welcome to the dystopia that is Episode 719. I’m your Host Judge Kirkham. Every Month on the Lambcast, we have a movie put forward by a member and voted on in a poll, to be the MOTM. For January, that Movie is “Dredd”, the 2012 action dystopia featuring Karl Urban as the masked executioner of Justice. In addition to myself, we have three other Jurists on the show today, to dispense sentences on the perpetrators of this film. Listen and be Judged. Also, Sequels that we really wanted to see. 

The frigid weather seems to have kept most of the sheep in their mangers this week, but Todd Liebenow came out to the pasture to play with us. So we end up with two guys over Fifty, talking about a movie that is targeted to Girls under 20. Not to worry, also opening this week was a film targeting Guys and probably even older audiences, so it all balances out. "Mean Girls 2024" gets its musical bona fides checked and Jason Statham continues to cut through bad guys like John Wick looking for a new dog. A brief show this week, but fun to listen to. 

Between the guests on the show this week, there were 37 different films that made our Top Ten Lists. The number goes up even higher when you add in the lists submitted to the show by those that could not be with us live.  There is a wide range of opinions on some of the films, in fact if we were doing a 10 worst list, some films from this show would overlap. The Lambs are nothing if not diverse when it comes to their opinions. The show this week is epic, with guests Tony Coogan, Latoya Austin, Howard Casner and Rishabh Vashishtha joining Richard for the discussion. We had lots to talk about and we talked a lot. 

A bucketload of films get dumped on the silver screen in December, and we never have time to cover all of them, but we do want to try. This week, seven Lambs share the last minute gifts (and lumps of coal) that they caught up with at the close of 2023. A couple of streaming films sneak in, there is plenty of Oscar Bait, and there are several pleasant surprises. We also talk briefly about the films of the year that disappointed us. It's a loose format this week, but you will find plenty to enjoy. 

The community selected this film from all the December releases, to be the new film that we cover for the month. Tony Coogan and Jay Cluitt return from 200 episodes ago, when we talked about the original "Chicken Run", but we are also joined by Rachel Wagner, back for a third week in a row and James Wilson, who is filling out the show completely. This is the sequel we have waited 23 years to hatch, was it worth all that time on the nest? Our guests will let you know what they think, as we dive into "Dawn of the Nugget" and some other stop motion films as well. 

High School Pressures, The Christmas Pageant, Repressive Teachers, Unrequited Love, Dancing, Singing, Christmas and Zombies, "Anna and the Apocalypse" has it all. This week, we have your Christmas Movie of the Month and you are going to love it as much as we did. Howard Casner Championed the film and he hosts a discussion of Zombie etiquette and choreography. Rachel Wagner and the Vern join in to talk about this 2018 release that deserves a cult status that it has yet to achieve.  

The Lambs flock together to share some memories of Christmas Past, Present and Future as Howard Casner leads a discussion concerning Christmas Gifts, Christmas Movies and Stocking stuffers. Are you still looking for some gift ideas, maybe this show will plant a seed that will germinate into your own Christmas memory. 

The November Movie of the Month is the 2002 Sci-Fi Action film from Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise. Pre-Crime is the topic and the questions are plentiful. Bubbawheat was the champion of the film and he leads us through a discussion of the U.S. Constitution, Determinism, Free will and eye surgery. The films innovations and prescient technology is acknowledged but so are the plot holes and tech that the film makers got wrong. We get a return this week to the Rants, Raves and Reviews feature of the podcast, and everyone has plenty to promote. Listen to the podcast, and you can also watch it on YouTube if you prefer.  

 This week we get back to talking about new movies, and it is the time of the year that the cream begins to rise to the top. Director Alexander Payne is a two time Academy Award winning screenwriter, and a three time directing nominee, so when he shows up with a new film, it seems likely to be talked about in the awards season. "The Holdovers" features a cranky history teacher at a remote prep school who is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go. Nicole Ayers, Howard Casner and Rachel Wagner serve detention with Richard this week.